All of us at Wakefield Books wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year!
We will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary next month, and we are so grateful for your support through the years especially during a very challenging 2020! Here's hoping 2021 is better and brighter for all of us!
While the usual wave of new releases took a break in December, they are back in full swing this month and we are restocking on all of our best selling items including many new ones!
Don't forget to print out the coupon at the bottom of this newsletter and
save 20% off an item this month!
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Get organized for 2021!
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Stay organized this year with a great new wall calendar, planner, or page-a-day.
All of our remaining calendars and planners are 50% off!
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Now Available: Rhode Island Memories Vol. 3
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Local Authors
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Last Castle in the Sand
by Claremary P. Sweeney
The 5th installment in the South County Mystery Series finds Kara and her friends enjoying the close of the tourist season when beaches, once again, are returned to the locals. This brief respite soon ends with a murder, an arrest, and an impending storm all combining to threaten the tranquil seaside resorts which have made the Ocean State famous.
Claremary Sweeney's South County Mystery Series are all modern mysteries with local settings. Each book features a different village and includes some historic background interwoven in the plots. There is a regular cast of characters who develop throughout the series and every book has its season always ending with a celebration in the final chapter.
Saving Narragansett Bay: How People, Passion, and Perseverance Made all the Difference
by Todd McLeish
The remarkable cleanup of Narragansett Bay has been referred to as a global success story. It has been an ongoing challenge, with victories won through hundreds of battles, big and small, and fought by impassioned community members.
As Save The Bay celebrates their 50th anniversary, they reflect on the work, effort, and commitment that led to both the founding of our organization, and to the cleanup of the beautiful Bay that is the very heart of our mission with Saving Narragansett Bay: How People, Passion, and Perseverance Made All The Difference.
Blue Hill
by G. Wayne Miller
Blue Hill is a story of mystery, memory, faith, forgiveness, and acceptance-a story of lies and truths, of what is real and what is fleeting. Set in 1997, Blue Hill also is a fictional chronicle of an epochal real time: the dawning of the Internet Age, when the culture churned and the world was entering a virtual other-existence. Chat rooms. AOL. Dial-up. Floppy discs. Files measured in kilobytes.Part thriller, part fantasy and farce, Blue Hill is mostly a novel about who and what matter most in this short life.G. Wayne Miller is an author, filmmaker, podcaster, screenwriter, and Providence Journal staff writer.
Block Island: From Glaciers to the Wind Farm
"Everything you want to know about Block Island but didn't know who to ask" by Steve McQueeny
The book tells the whole story of the island from its formation, its flora and fauna, original inhabitants, its colonists, commercial developments up to its current residents and visitors into the 21st century. The author's hope is that the reader will derive from this book that Block Island is not just another pretty place, but rather that it is a place where pioneers of this great country, despite all odds, eked out a hardscrabble existence and over centuries developed the island we know today. In addition, many descendants of those original families remain here, helping to keep the island pristine.
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| January Releases |
Many more titles are released each week, but here are some of the highlights.....
Check our website for
a more complete list.
Tuesday January 5th
Tuesday January 12th
Tuesday January 19th
Tuesday January 26th
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New in Paperback this Month......
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Select Hardcover Bestsellers 30% off Everyday!
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Save 20% on any full priced item this month
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Wakefield Books
160 Old Tower Hill Rd.
Wakefield, RI 02879
401-792-0000
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 Here's what NPR is saying about these titles:
Right Place, Right Time
by Bob Gruen
Photographer Bob Gruen spent decades capturing the lives and performances of rock stars of the '60s, '70s and '80s, including John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner - and many more. Gruen looks back on his career in this new memoir. He describes his work as an effort to capture the feeling and passion of music - not just the facts.
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Perestroika in Paris
by Jane Smiley
It's such a joy when an author whose work you've been reading for decades surprises you with something unexpected. The title character of Jane Smiley's new novel, is a talking horse! But this delightful, heartwarming tale about creatures living in the rough in Paris's Champs de Mars is something new for Smiley, and it's an appealing balm for harsh times.
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by Michael Eric Dyson
Long Time Coming is a timely, heartfelt book that uses history to slice our nation open and show how racism is a sickness that has shaped our culture and society in a variety of insidious ways.Each chapter is a letter Dyson writes to explore "the frameworks of perception that we are compelled to adopt to justify questionable or biased racial claims." The writing is smart and the research that informs it is great, but what makes this an important book is Dyson's voice, which is strong but always pregnant with frustration, pain, admiration and, ultimately, hope.
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D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
by Michel Faber
D, which takes place in a world in where the letter d has begun to disappear. Dogs, dentists, doctors begin to dwindle - or maybe we should say wane, as they can no longer diminish or decline in that d-less world - or perhaps "worl." And a 13-year-old girl known as Dhikilo, born in Somaliland but adopted by a couple in England, leads the journey to discover and recover the letter d. D was commissioned for the 150 year anniversary of Charles Dickens' death, and it's a mash up of an homage to Dickens, Narnia, The Wizard of Oz and other worlds.
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